Roleplaying GM Tip: Organizing Initiative

[baxil]

If you've ever played a tabletop roleplaying game, there's a phrase I guarantee you have heard, no matter what system, no matter how fresh or how experienced your fellow players are:*

"Whose turn is it again?"

Initiative is a pain. That's one of those natural laws of gaming, right up there with grappling rules being unusable. When you're

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[arethinn]

aj: “George picks up the Magic 8-ball from the vendor’s stall, and asks ‘Are dragons real?’”
GM (Bax): (Picks up his iPhone, loads up a Magic 8-Ball app, and hands it to aj to shake)
Magic 8-ball: “It is decidedly so”

LOL!

[baxil]

Spontaneous outbreaks of random like that area always great fun. The best part is that I only had a Magic 8-ball app on my iPhone because I had planned a totally scripted 8-Ball shaking (I had made a custom 8-ball that would only come up "What are the odds?", our house name for George's luck-bending powers), but after the scripted shake I reset it to normal and the thing STILL kept on hitting our questions out of the park.